Felix

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Graphic designer and photographer, Victoria BC. 🇨🇦

Jacobus Vrel, 1664, Woman at Window. Spooky painting of a woman in a dark room, leaning out an opened window. You can’t see her face, or what she’s looking at. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien.
German entry of lexicon of third reich personnel.
20 year old oak tree shading my 4 story apartment building. Green leaves fill the view from my 10’ wide window.
Hippolyte Flandrin, 1842. Christ figure lies dead and his mother Mary grieves over him. But she’s an oval, abstract shape, almost solid black in the gloom.
I don’t even know.
Trump: Tune in at 8pm eastern to watch me destroy the world. Will be grand!
A view of a residential city street in Victoria, BC, that ends at the ocean, lined with blossoming cherry trees, they are a very pale pink. It’s the peak of blossom time.
Screenshots from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges
New York Times, M Gessen: When we think of the terror regimes of the past, it is tempting to superimpose a logical narrative on them, as though totalitarian leaders had an extermination to-do list and worked their way through it methodically. This, I think, is how most people understand Martin Niemöller’s classic poem “First They Came.” In reality, though, the people living under those regimes never knew which group of people would be designated an enemy of the state next. In Niemöller’s day, terror was carried out by the secret police and the paramilitary forces — especially the SA, more commonly known as the Brownshirts — whose job it was to instill fear in the population. In 1934, Adolf Hitler had an estimated 150 to 200 members of the SA’s own leadership arrested and its top generals executed in the ultimate demonstration that no one was immune from the state’s deadly violence. Stalin regularly carried out similar purges. Terror itself was not the end goal of those regimes, but nothing that followed would have been possible without it.
Metal spiral bike rack. Hip height metal tubing.
Greenland ice sheet stretching far beyond habitable regions of NA.
Guardian screenshot: When contacted for comment by email, xAI replied with the message: “Legacy Media Lies”.
Page of The Salient with dubiously satirical headlines, including The Salient apologizes to Hitler.
Budget 12 million Box Office 400k Screenshot from Wikipedia
Park with trees turning yellow, green grass, and a small black and white terrier waiting for me to resume our walk.
View of the straight of Juan de Fuca looking towards Washington State from Clover Point, Victoria. Sunny with dark clouds in the distance, silver sea. Red lounge chairs are set along the waters edge.
Illustration by Karl Jilg, 2014, Sweden. People walk on narrow sidewalks in a city, between tall buildings and an abyss where the road would be. One man hurries across the abyss/street using a rickety plank.
The waterfront in Victoria with a bike lane, yellow lounge chairs, a pedestrian walkway along the ocean with a fence and railing at the edge. The sky and water are golden at sunset. In the background is a huge cruise ship, docked. Its lights are all on and it sparkles. In the foreground is a tall lamppost with a golden light at the top.
The straight of Juan de Fuca looking towards Washington state from the southern tip of Vancouver Island. The sea and sky are tinted pink from the sunset. The clouds and the ocean form horizontal bands of colour.
Photo of pale, almost full moon rising, the ocean is calm, the sky is shades of blue and orange. In the foreground are rocks and tufts of dry grass. Southern tip of Vancouver Island.
Close up of Harley the rat terrier looking quizzically at the viewer, big brown eyes and one ear straight up, the other down. He’s black and white in spots, with chocolate brown on his handsome face.
View from the back seat of an $85 cab ride home from the ferry, Pat Bay highway, looking at the BC transit #70 express bus that we’d caught up to.
Highlighted text from NYT article: Last week, in fact, on the eighth anniversary of the violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., where neo-Nazis marched by torchlight chanting about immigrants and Jews, Augustus Sol Invictus, a Florida lawyer who helped organize the event, marveled at how thoroughly the Trump administration had adopted a position that had once been on the fringes of political discourse.
A city sidewalk piled with uneven ice and snow that has been there for days. A man waits at a bus stop, he’ll have to climb to get on a bus.
pathologists determined that the sickness and death had been caused by sodium flouride, an ingredient in cockroach poison; pathology reports showed large amounts of the compound in the stomachs of the dead victims. Five grams--the size of an aspirin--would have been fatal; some of the dead had eaten more sodium flouride than eggs. Cockroach poison was known to be available at the hospital, kept in a locked cellar room to which only regular kitchen employees had keys. State Police launched an investigation, and began interviewing staff and patients at the hospital. Finally, several days after the poisonings, two cooks at the hospital, A.B. McKillop and Mary O’Hare, admitted that they knew what had happened, that they had realized soon after the symptoms had struck, but had not come forward for fear of being charged. McKillop took responsibility, saying he had been the one to send a patient trusty, George Nosen, to the cellar to get dry milk powder for the scrambled eggs he was preparing. He had given Nosen his keys to the cellar, and Nosen returned with a tin half-full of powder, an estimated six pounds of which were mixed into the scrambled eggs at McKillop’s direction. When people had begun getting ill, he had questioned Nosen about where he’d found the powder, and discovered he had brought roach poison. Despite McKillop’s insistence that O’Hare bore no responsibility for the poisoning, and over the objections of the State Police, who had determined that the poisoning was accidental, District Attorney M.B. Hayden ordered both cooks arrested. A grand jury declined to indict them; the patient George Nosen was never charged. Considered by many of his fellow patients to be a mass murderer, he became something of a pariah at the hospital where he spent the rest of his life. Two brief attempts at life outside the institution failed, and he died at the State Hospital 41 years later, after suffering a heart attack during a fight with another patient.
St Teresa being absolutely ecstatic about the angels pointy bit. By Bernini, that scamp.
Screenshot of pie chart analysis of my posts. 80 posts analyzed, 8 had images, all 8 had alt text. My theory is alt text allows me to add jokes, and over explain when the need strikes.
Washington Post article that spells Andreessen’s name with one s in the headline, but 2 in the body.
Screenshot of the New York Times website front page, headline reads Trump’s Winning Streak Rolls On. Photo of Trump at rally yesterday, “in an ebullient mood”.
Text from the article. Highlighted: We could not help but feel her advocacy for Thomas transcended her passing.
10 years ago, loop had parking. People liked to park and watch storms.
The old and new Johnson St lift bridges in Victoria. The new one, right side, was built first and then the old road bridge was dismantled. Dearly departed but it was a pain to use by bike.
One of the galleries of the Louvre in early May, filled with people. Beautiful ceilings though.
New York Times word puzzle, with a word that uses all the letters, but their dictionary doesn’t recognize. FELICITATE is definitely a word! As my first name is Felicity, this annoys me just a little.
Retractable bollards with red lights, so drivers can see if they can proceed or not. One blocks the road, the other is driver window height. France.